celebrating my return to tumblr with late birthday art for the rat, the brit, the orange himself — TIMOTHY SIMON ROTH🎂🎉🎈
here's the first version I made in 2021, three years later and i finally get the sequel out 😔✌️tim roth nation is where i will always belong🧡🐀🍊✨
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JOE ANOA'I - Roman Reigns/Joe Leakee
GALINA BECKER - Zoie Jordan/Sierra Moore
JONATHAN GOOD - Jon Moxley/Dean Ambrose
RENEE PAQUETTE - Faye Wayland/Renee Young
COLBY LOPEZ - Seth Rollins/Tyler Black
SARAH ALESANDRELLI - Kourtney Scott/Danielle Morono
FERGAL DEVITT - Finn Balor/Jonah Arsene
VERO RODRIGUEZ - Amy Grayson/Jane Sharp
DANIEL GILLIES - Gavin Powers/Travis Dawson
ASHLEY FLIEHR - Charlotte Flair/Ashley Diamond
IAN SOMERHALDER - Hayden Evans/Brendan Smith
SARAYA BEVIS - Saraya Calaway/Paige Knight
JOSEPH MORGAN - Elijah Gonzales/Hunter Prince
REBECCA QUIN - Becky Lynch/Rebecca Knox
PAUL WESLEY - Isiah Alister/Zakai Danger
APRIL MENDEZ - AJ Lee/Mey Zodiac
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I've found the best characters for my AEW/WWE Fan-Fiction stories, I got the main boys from the Vampire Diaries and the Originals, and got the three married wives and a former girlfriend turned friend.
We know that most of the wrestlers here will be faces or heels, but I want them as the baddest bosses while the good guys are gonna be portrayed as sixteen newcomers who's shorter.
I got Jordan "Dan" Sweeto, Kayleigh "Wolfy" Smyth | Wolfychu, Patrick "Patty" Walters, Dorothy "Dottie" Martin, Johnnie Guilbert, Alexandria "Alex" Dorame, James Tyler Hagen, Shannon "Shan" Taylor, Nathan "Nate" Owens, Leda "Monster Bunny" Muir, Damon "Dee" Fizzy, Carson Fanikos, Luke Jeydon Wale, Samantha "Sam" Rochelle, Kyle David Hall, and Meghan Marie Hogan for the OC portrayals cause I like people within the goth/punk/emo/scene style.
I figured that modern day of straight history meets attitude era for their bad influence; my sixteen OCs doesn't care for the rules and are the most rebellious people in WWE.
This takes place from SummerSlam 2012 for the Fallen Angels and their first victory in Night of Champions: Gold Rush; Survivor Series 2012 for the Shield and their first victory in TLC; Royal Rumble 2013 for the Dark Gods and their first victory in Elimination Chamber; WrestleMania 29 for the Resistance and their first victory in Extreme Rules; they're known as the Pack of Lone Wolves.
For each OC stable...their names are the following; the Unholy Circle for the girls, the Genesis for the girls, the Blood Order for the boys, and the Demolition for the boys; they're the Pride of Wild Lions.
Comment down on ring names for my OCs and follow me at Wattpad on GlampireRockstar...sayonara guys!
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*blows a kiss* for james walter wayland 💕💕
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tim playing evil, pretty bois in the 90s is one of the purest forms of cinema. wayland's not quite as apathetic as jack but he's still a psychopath. not only did he possibly cut a woman in half - we'll never know after he gaslit those cops interrogating him into thinking they did it 🤪 - but he drinks milk with a SPOON. absolute menace 💚
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Wanted Characters to write with!
This list is long, but it’s not extensive, there is likely ones I’ve missed!
This list is for all kinds of ships - familiar, platonic and romantic
If you want to know which of my muses I have in mind for each let me know and I will let you know who I’d like to write against the below muses!
***Edited to add - this is just canons, but I’m always down for writing with/shipping with OC’s!
Wanted Canon Male muses
Misc
Daemon Targaryen / HotD
Aemond Targaryen / HotD
Nick Goode / Fear Street
Tommy Slater / Fear Street
Adil of Tarim / Fort Salem
Walter Bishop / Fringe
Morpheus/Dream / The Sandman
Ed Mercer / The Orville
Isaac / The Orville
Kalabar Junior / Halloweentown
From Blood and Ash
Casteel Da’Neer
Kieran Contou
Folk of Air
Cardan Greenbriar
ACOTAR
Rhysand
Kallias
Azriel
Tamlin
Fourth Wing
Xaden Riorson
Liam Mairi
Tairn (the Dragon)
Garrett
Bodhi
Dain Aetos
Ridoc
Teen Wolf
Peter Hale
Derek Hale
Stiles Stilinski
Scott McCall
Myth
Hades
HP
James Potter
Sirius Black
Remus Lupin
Sebastian Sallow
Ominis Gaunt
Garreth Weasley
Amit Thakkar
Aesop Sharp
Eleazar Fig
Harry Potter
Draco Malfoy
Charlie Weasley
Fred Weasley
George Weasley
Blaise Zabini
Cedric Diggory
Godric Gryffindor
Salazar Slytherin
Scorpius Malfoy
Twilight
Edward Cullen
Jasper Hale
Jacob Black
Carlisle Cullen
MCU
Alexei Shostakov
Pietro Maximoff
Foggy Nelson
Thor Odinson
Loki Laufeyson
Druig
Dane
Peter Parker (any iteration)
Tony Stark
Steve Rogers
Bucky Barnes
Bruce Banner
Clint Barton
Shang-Chi
Groot
Doctor Strange
Lost Girl
Hale Santiago
Dyson Thornwood
Trick
Shadowhunters
Jace Wayland
Simon Lewis
Alec Lightwood
Magnus Bane
Luke Garroway
CAOS
Nick Scratch
Caliban
Ambrose Spellman
Harvey Kinkle
Fate: The Winx Saga
Sky
Riven
Grey
Saul Silva
Agents of SHIELD
Grant Ward
Leo Fitz
Phil Coulson
Lance Hunter
Alphonso Mackenzie
TVD/TO
Elijah Mikaelson
Klaus Mikaelson
Tyler Lockwood
Stefan Salvatore
Damon Salvatore
Kai Parker
OUAT
Killian Jones
Neal Cassidy
David Nolan
Henry Mills (platonic/familial only due to character age)
The Witcher
Geralt of Rivia
Jaskier
Vesemir
Bridgerton
Anthony Bridgerton
Benedict Bridgerton
Colin Bridgerton
Simon Basset
Lucifer
Lucifer Morningstar
Amenadiel
Stranger Things
Steve Harrington
Jonathan Byers
Eddie Munson
Dustin Henderson (platonic/familial only due to character age)
Jim Hopper
The Quarry
Max Brinly
Dylan Lenivy
Nick Furcillo
Charmed (1997)
Chris Halliwell
Wyatt Halliwell
Leo Wyatt
Julie and the Phantoms
Reggie Peters
Alex Mercer
Luke Patterson
Mass Effect
Garrus Vakarian
Thane Krios
Grunt
Commander Shepard (Male)
DCTV
Oliver Queen
William Clayton
Barry Allan
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Raymond Holt
Terry Jeffords
Charles Boyle
iZombie
Major Lilywhite
Blaine DeBeers
Wednesday
Xavier Thorpe
Tyler Galpin
Sheriff Galpin
Gomez Addams
Shadow and Bone
Matthias
Kaz Brekker
Jesper Fahey
Aleksander Morozova
Mal Oretsev
Tolkien World
Halbrand
Fili
Kili
Thorin Oakenshield
Bilbo Baggins
Legolas
The Covenant
Caleb Danvers
Reid Garwin
Tyler Simms
Pogue Parry
Chase Collins
Night World
James Rasmussen
Ash Redfern
John Quinn
One Piece
Monkey D Luffy
Sanji
Roronoa Zoro
Usopp
Buggy
Arlong
Shanks
Wanted Canon Female muses
Misc
Vonetta Contou / From Blood and Ash
Taryn Duarte / The Cruel Prince
Tris Prior / Divergent
Olivia Dunham / Fringe
Kelly Grayson / The Orville
Claire Finn / The Orville
Alara Kitan / The Orville
Vanessa Afron / FNAF Movie
Marnie Piper / Halloweentown
ACOTAR
Nesta Archeron
Emerie
Catrin Berdara
Lady of Autumn
HP
Marlene McKinnon
Luna Lovegood
Ginny Weasley
Hermione Granger
Pansy Parkinson
Rowena Ravenclaw
Lily Evans/Potter
Marlene McKinnon
Female MC of Hogwarts Legacy
Poppy Sweeting
Natsai Onai
Imelda Reyes
Mirabel Garlick
Matilda Weasley
Dinah Hecat
Sirona Ryan
Victoire Weasley
Fourth Wing
Violet Sorrengail
Rhiannon Matthias
Mira Sorrengail
Sloane Mairi
Sgyael (the Dragon)
Descendants
Evie Grimhilde
Mal Bertha
Audrey Rose
Fear Street
Deena Johnson
Alice
Ziggy Berman
Twilight
Bella Swan
Esme Cullen
Rosalie Hale
Alice Cullen
MCU
Natasha Romanoff
Yelena Belova
Melina Vostokoff
Wanda Maximoff
Jane Foster
Darcy Lewis
Monica Rambeau
Karen Page
Jennifer Walters
Sylvie Laufeydottir
Makkari
Sersi
The Hunger Games
Annie Cresta
Katniss Everdeen
Johanna Mason
Shadowhunters
Clary Fray
Isabelle Lightwood
Teen Wolf
Malia Tate
Lydia Martin
Kira Yukimura
Allison Argent
Melissa McCall
Laura Hale
Satomi
Braeden
Kate Argent
Lost Girl
Bo Dennis
Kenzi Malikov
Tamsin
Lauren Lewis
CAOS
Sabrina Spellman
Rosalind Walker
Prudence Blackwood
Agatha Night
Dorcas Night
Hilda Spellman
Zelda Spellman
Fate: The Winx Saga
Bloom Peters
Terra Harvey
Beatrix
Flora
Stella
Musa
Aisha
Agents of SHIELD
Skye / Daisy Johnson
Jemma Simmons
Melinda May
Bobbi Morse
TVD/TO
Rebekah Mikaelson
Freya Mikaelson
Hope Mikaelson
Hayley Marshall
Elena Gilbert
Caroline Forbes
Bonnie Bennett
Katherine Petrova
Lizzie Saltzman
Josie Saltzman
OUAT
Emma Swan
Snow White
Alice Jones
Regina Mills
The Witcher
Yennefer
Cirilla
Francesca Findabair
Bridgerton
Kate Sharma
Edwina Sharma
Daphne Bridgerton
Eloise Bridgerton
Violet Bridgerton
Queen Charlotte
Lucifer
Chloe Decker
Mazikeen Smith
Linda Martin
Ella Lopez
Stranger Things
Robin Buckley
Nancy Wheeler
Eleven / Jane Hopper (no ship as kid muse)
Max Mayfield (no ship as kid muse)
Joyce Byers
Disney
Elsa of Arendelle
Anna of Arendelle
Maleficent
Fort Salem
Abigail Bellweather
Scylla
Raelle Collar
The Quarry
Abigail Blyg
Emma Mountebank
Laura Kearney
Kaitlyn Ka
Charmed (1997)
Piper Halliwell
Phoebe Halliwell
Paige Halliwell
Mass Effect
Tali’Zorah Nar Rayya
Commander Shepard (female)
Jack / Subject Zero
The Sandman
Calliope
Johanna Constantine
Death
Rose Walker
Lyta Hall
DCTV
Felicity Smoak
Kara Danvers
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Amy Santiago
Rosa Diaz
Gina Linetti
iZombie
Liv Moore
Peyton Charles
Wednesday
Wednesday Addams
Enid Sinclair
Bianca
Yoko
Morticia Addams
Larissa Weems
Marilyn THornhill
Shadow and Bone
Alina Starkov
Inej Ghafa
NIna Zenik
Zoya Nazyalensky
Genya Safin
Tolkien World
Galadriel
Tauriel
Night World
Poppy North
Mary-Lynnette Carter
Rowan Redfern
Kestrel Redfern
Jade Redfern
One Piece
Nami
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// What if I finally rewatch Deceiver and add James Walter Wayland as a new muse? Just a thought but opinions are accepted and welcomed.
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The Fraught and Remarkable Production of James Cameron’s ALIENS
In 1979, director Ridley Scott took the genres of horror and science fiction by storm with his groundbreaking film Alien. As is often the case with runaway successes such as this, a sequel followed. However, unlike Alien – Aliens was to be an altogether different kind of beast.
Aliens Conception
After the success of Alien, producer David Giler declared in 1979 that production house Brandywine were intent on making a sequel. Initially having the full support of 20th Century Fox’s president Alan Ladd Jr, that year Ladd left amid Fox’s transition to new owners. The new management at Fox had no interest in the sequel. In the meantime, Giler and partners Walter Hill and Gordon Carroll sued Fox regarding the disbursement of the Alien profits after reneging on Ladd’s promise. The subsequent lawsuit would not be settled until 1983. By this time, Fox had once again acquired new executives that were more interested in continuing Alien as a franchise. Giler pitched the project to the new management as a cross between Hill’s Southern Comfort and The Magnificent Seven.
Enter James Cameron
While the producers sought a writer for the proposed sequel, Development executive Larry Wilson came across James Cameron’s screenplay for The Terminator. The screenplay was passed on to Giler, the general feeling was that Cameron was the man for the job. Giler approached Cameron, who was completing pre-production of The Terminator at this time. A fan of Alien, Cameron was interested in helming the proposed sequel and began work on a concept for Aliens. Cameron produced a 45-page treatment in just 4 days. Fox management once again put the film on hiatus. The pitch was met with mixed feelings and cold feet that Alien had not generated enough profit to warrant a sequel.
Filming of Cameron’s The Terminator was also delayed by nine months at this time. Due to its star, Arnold Schwarzenegger filming Conan the Destroyer, production was delayed. This was a serendipitous turn of events allowing Cameron additional time to write a script for Aliens. While still filming The Terminator, Cameron wrote 90 pages for Aliens. Even in its unfinished state, the work piqued the interest of Fox’s new president Larry Gordon. Cameron was told that if The Terminator was a success, he would be able to direct Aliens. Bringing aboard Gale Ann Hurd to produce, The rest, as they say, is history.
Express Elevator To Hell: A Change Of Approach
Where as the original Alien is oft quoted as being a “haunted house in space”, Cameron’s approach for the sequel was to be something entirely different. The extra time Cameron had been afforded to work on his treatment for Aliens had been well utilised. The story he came up with took the series in a brave new direction.
Ellen Ripley has been drifting in space for some time after the events of the first movie. To be more precise, Ripley has drifted through space for 57 years. Picked up in her EEV by Wayland-Yutani, the ever-present, shadowy “Company”, Ripley’s tasked with returning to LV-426, now a terraformed colony. All communication with LV-426 and its inhabitants has been lost. Accompanying a squad of kick-ass colonial marines, they need to establish why contact has broken down.
Aliens is Bigger, bolder, and much more action oriented than its predecessor. Where as the original was more a traditional thriller, Aliens was to be all out war. Perfectly pacing exposition, slow building suspense and intense action, Cameron certainly knew what he wanted to deliver. From its bombastic James Horner score, to its groundbreaking Stan Winston effects, This is how a sequel is done right.
Hard Times
Cameron now had his film and a $18 million budget, he now needed to secure his leading lady. Sigourney Weaver was reticent about the project. Weaver met Cameron who explained his ideas, piquing the actors interest in revisiting her character. Fox, however, refused to sign Weaver over a payment dispute and asked Cameron to write a story excluding her character. Cameron refused on the grounds that Fox had indicated that Weaver’s involvement when he began writing his treatment for Aliens. Cameron doggedly insisted in Weaver’s involvement and Fox signed the contract. Weaver obtained a salary of $1 million, a sum 30 times what she was paid for Alien.
Bringing together the likes of Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen and Bill Paxton, who had all worked with Cameron on The Terminator. They were joined by Paul Reiser, Janette Goldstein, William Hope and newcomer, Carrie Henn to round off the principal cast.
Us & Them
Filmed over the best part of a year at Pinewood studios in the U.K., the production was notoriously fraught. The U.S & U.K crews would frequently butt heads. Notoriously tensions strained over, of all things, was the Great British ‘tea break’ frequently bringing production to a halt. A very much ‘us & them’ attitude punctuated the production. Many of the experienced crew had worked under Ridley Scott on the original film and believed Cameron to be too young and inexperienced to carry so large a film. Tensions reached their peak when Cameron fired D.O.P Dick Bush over negative approaches to schedule and difference of opinion, causing the crew to walk out on the production. Hurd, working her production magic, managed to coax the crew back. With such a pervasive atmosphere, it is a wonder the film turned out as well as it did.
Praise has to be given on the magnificent sets that were built. Production converted part of a disused power station in Acton to become the alien nest. An interesting piece of trivia, the set that was used for the atmosphere processor was reused a few years later as The Axis chemical factory in Tim Burton’s Batman. I was never aware of this until recently and must confess to geeking out a little.
Building A Better Movie
Robert and Dennis Skotak were hired to supervise the visual effects for Aliens. Two stages were utilised to construct the colony on LV-426. Cameron used these miniatures and several effects to make scenes look larger than they really were. Namely through methods including forced perspective, rear projection, mirrors and foreground miniatures. Practical effects supervisor John Richardson (who earned the Oscar for Best Visual Effects for the film in 1987) declared his biggest challenge was creating the power loader. Requiring three months work, The model could not stand on its own, requiring either wires dangling from the shoulders or a pole through the back attached to a crane. While Sigourney Weaver was stood inside the loader, a stunt man standing behind it would move the arms and legs.
Aliens Reborn
Stan Winston designed alien suits were made more flexible and durable than the ones used in Alien to allow more freedom of movement. This new suit allowed the Xeno’s to crawl and jump. Dancers, gymnasts, and stunt men were hired to portray the aliens. 8-foot-tall mannequins we’re constructed to make aliens that stood could have charges detonated to simulate gunshot wounds. Winston’s team also created fully articulated facehuggers that could move their fingers; these were moved by wires hidden on the scenery or the actors’ clothing. This was a remarkably simple trick that allowed the facehuggers to appear more real than ever.
The Queen Lives!
The alien queen provided one of the most difficult challenges to film. A life-sized mockup was created by Winston in the U.S. to act as a dry run to see how it would operate on set. Once the testing was complete, the crew working on the queen flew to England and began work creating the final version.
Standing at 14 feet tall, it was a phenomenal physical creation. The Queen was operated using a mixture of puppeteers, control rods, hydraulics, cables, and a crane above to support it. Two puppeteers inside the suit operated its arms, and 16 additional were required to move it. All sequences involving the full-size queen were filmed in-camera with no post-production manipulation. Let’s just consider that for a moment. The majority of the queens shots, excluding some minimal miniature work, all happened on set. Even by today’s standards, that is remarkable.
Now That Sounds Like A Franchise: The Success Of Aliens
Aliens was released in North America on July 18, 1986. In North America, the film opened in 1,437 theaters with an opening weekend gross of $10,052,042. It was #1 at the North American box office for four consecutive weeks, grossing $85.1 million. The film’s worldwide total gross has been stated as high as $180 million, making Aliens one of the highest-grossing R-rated films at the time. Due to its resounding success, the Xenomorphs would return to our screens again in 1992 for Alien3, helmed by first time director David Fincher. In the subsequent years that followed their would be another 3 Alien movies and a further 2 Alien vs. Predator spin-offs.
The Alien series has proved to be a franchise that refuses to lay down and die. Arguably its real turning point came with the leap of faith taken by James Cameron in taking the series in a bold new direction and expanding upon the mythos of the Xenomorph race in such an inventive and breathlessly engaging way.
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2017 Reading
262 books read. 60% of new reads Non-fiction, authors from 55 unique countries, 35% of authors read from countries other than USA, UK, Canada, and Australia. Asterisks denote re-reads, bolds are favorites.
January:
The Deeds of the Disturber – Elizabeth Peters
The Wiregrass – Pam Webber
Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
It Didn't Start With You – Mark Wolynn
Facing the Lion – Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton
Before We Visit the Goddess – Chitra Divakaruni
Colored People – Henry Louis Gates Jr.
My Khyber Marriage – Morag Murray Abdullah
Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines – Margery Sharp
Farewell to the East End – Jennifer Worth
Fire and Air – Erik Vlaminck
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me – Jennifer Teege
Catherine the Great – Robert K Massie
My Mother's Sabbath Days – Chaim Grade
Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me – Harvey Pekar, JT Waldman
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend – Katarina Bivald
Stammered Songbook – Erwin Mortier
Savushun – Simin Daneshvar
The Prophet – Kahlil Gibran
Beyond the Walls – Nazim Hikmet
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana – Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
A Day No Pigs Would Die – Robert Newton Peck *
February:
Bone Black – bell hooks
Special Exits – Joyce Farmer
Reading Like a Writer – Francine Prose
Bright Dead Things – Ada Limon
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Confessions of an English Opium Eater – Thomas de Quincey
Medusa's Gaze – Marina Belozerskaya
Child of the Prophecy – Juliet Marillier *
The File on H – Ismail Kadare
The Motorcycle Diaries – Ernesto Che Guevara
Passing – Nella Larsen
Whose Body? - Dorothy L. Sayers
The Spiral Staircase – Karen Armstrong
Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi
Defiance – Nechama Tec
March:
Yes, Chef – Marcus Samuelsson
Discontent and its Civilizations – Mohsin Hamid
The Gulag Archipelago Vol. 1 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Patience and Sarah – Isabel Miller
Dying Light in Corduba – Lindsey Davis *
Five Days at Memorial – Sheri Fink
A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman *
The Shia Revival – Vali Nasr
Girt – David Hunt
Half Magic – Edward Eager *
Dreams of Joy – Lisa See *
Too Pretty to Live – Dennis Brooks
West with the Night – Beryl Markham
Little Fuzzy – H. Beam Piper *
April:
Defying Hitler – Sebastian Haffner
Monsters in Appalachia – Sheryl Monks
Sorcerer to the Crown – Zen Cho
The Man Without a Face – Masha Gessen
Peace is Every Step – Thich Nhat Hanh
Flory – Flory van Beek
Why Soccer Matters – Pele
The Zhivago Affair – Peter Finn, Petra Couvee
The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake – Breece Pancake
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared – Jonas Jonasson
Chasing Utopia – Nikki Giovanni
The Invisible Bridge – Julie Orringer *
Young Adults – Daniel Pinkwater
Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel – John Stubbs
Black Gun, Silver Star – Art T. Burton
The Arab of the Future 2 – Riad Sattouf
Hole in the Heart – Henny Beaumont
MASH – Richard Hooker
Forgotten Ally – Rana Mitter
Zorro – Isabel Allende
Flying Couch – Amy Kurzweil
May:
The Bite of the Mango – Mariatu Kamara
Mystic and Rider – Sharon Shinn *
Freedom is a Constant Struggle – Angela Davis
Capture – David A. Kessler
Poor Cow – Nell Dunn
My Father's Dragon – Ruth Stiles Gannett *
Elmer and the Dragon – Ruth Stiles Gannett *
The Dragons of Blueland – Ruth Stiles Gannett *
Hetty Feather – Jacqueline Wilson
In the Shadow of the Banyan – Vaddey Ratner
The Last Camel Died at Noon – Elizabeth Peters
Cannibalism – Bill Schutt
The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
The Food of a Younger Land – Mark Kurlansky
Behold the Dreamers – Imbolo Mbue
Words on the Move – John McWhorter
John Ransom's Diary: Andersonville – John Ransom
Such a Lovely Little War – Marcelino Truong
Child of All Nations – Irmgard Keun
One Child – Mei Fong
Country of Red Azaleas – Domnica Radulescu
Between Two Worlds – Zainab Salbi
Malinche – Julia Esquivel
A Lucky Child – Thomas Buergenthal
The Drackenberg Adventure – Lloyd Alexander
Say You're One of Them – Uwem Akpan
William Wells Brown – Ezra Greenspan
June:
Partners In Crime – Agatha Christie
The Chinese in America – Iris Chang
The Great Escape – Kati Marton
As Texas Goes... – Gail Collins
Pavilion of Women – Pearl S. Buck
Classic Chinese Stories – Lu Xun
The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
The Slave Across the Street – Theresa Flores
Miss Bianca in the Orient – Margery Sharp
Boy Erased – Garrard Conley
How to Be a Dictator – Mikal Hem
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
Tears of the Desert – Halima Bashir
The Death and Life of Great American Cities – Jane Jacobs
The First Salute – Barbara Tuchman
Come as You Are – Emily Nagoski
The Want-Ad Killer – Ann Rule
The Gulag Archipelago Vol 2 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
July:
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz – L. Frank Baum *
The Blazing World – Margaret Cavendish
Madonna in a Fur Coat – Sabahattin Ali
Duende – tracy k. smith
The ACB With Honora Lee – Kate de Goldi
Mountains of the Pharaohs – Zahi Hawass
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Chronicle of a Last Summer – Yasmine el Rashidi
Killers of the Flower Moon – David Grann
Mister Monday – Garth Nix *
Leaving Yuba City – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Silk Roads – Peter Frankopan
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
A Corner of White – Jaclyn Moriarty *
Circling the Sun – Paula McLain
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them – Al Franken
Believe Me – Eddie Izzard
The Cracks in the Kingdom – Jaclyn Moriarty *
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe – Fannie Flagg *
One Hundred and One Days – Asne Seierstad
Grim Tuesday – Garth Nix *
The Vanishing Velasquez – Laura Cumming
Four Against the Arctic – David Roberts
The Marriage Bureau – Penrose Halson
The Jesuit and the Skull – Amir D Aczel
Drowned Wednesday – Garth Nix *
Roots, Radicals, and Rockers – Billy Bragg
A Tangle of Gold – Jaclyn Moriarty *
Lydia, Queen of Palestine – Uri Orlev *
August:
Sir Thursday – Garth Nix *
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency – Daniel Pinkwater *
Lady Friday – Garth Nix *
Freddy and the Perilous Adventure – Walter R. Brooks *
Venice – Jan Morris
China's Long March – Jean Fritz
Trials of the Earth – Mary Mann Hamilton
The Bully Pulpit – Doris Kearns Goodwin
Final Exit – Derek Humphry
The Book of Emma Reyes – Emma Reyes
Freddy the Politician – Walter R. Brooks *
Dragonflight – Anne McCaffrey *
What the Witch Left – Ruth Chew
All Passion Spent – Vita Sackville-West
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Curse of the Blue Figurine – John Bellairs *
When They Severed Earth From Sky – Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Superior Saturday – Garth Nix *
The Boston Girl – Anita Diamant
The Mummy, The Will, and the Crypt – John Bellairs *
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? - Frans de Waal
The Philadelphia Adventure – Lloyd Alexander *
Lord Sunday – Garth Nix *
The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull – John Bellairs *
Five Little Pigs – Agatha Christie *
Love in Vain – JM Dupont, Mezzo
A Little History of the World – EH Gombrich
Last Things – Marissa Moss
Imagine Wanting Only This – Kristen Radtke
Dinosaur Empire – Abby Howard
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents – Terry Pratchett *
September:
First Bite by Bee Wilson
The Xanadu Adventure by Lloyd Alexander
Orientalism – Edward Said
The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan – Carl Barks
The Island on Bird Street – Uri Orlev *
The Indifferent Stars Above – Daniel James Brown
Beneath the Lion's Gaze – Maaza Mengiste
The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde *
The Book of Five Rings – Miyamoto Musashi
The Drunken Botanist – Amy Stewart
The Turtle of Oman – Naomi Shahib Nye
The Alleluia Files – Sharon Shinn *
Gut Feelings – Gerd Gigerenzer
The Secret of Hondorica – Carl Barks
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight – Alexandra Fuller
The Abominable Mr. Seabrook – Joe Ollmann
Black Flags – Joby Warrick
October:
Fear – Thich Nhat Hanh
Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8 – Naoki Higashida
To the Bright Edge of the World – Eowyn Ivey
Why? - Mario Livio
Just One Damned Thing After Another – Jodi Taylor
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Blindness – Jose Saramago
The Book Thieves – Anders Rydell
Reality is not What it Seems – Carlo Rovelli
Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell *
The Witch Family – Eleanor Estes *
Sister Mine – Nalo Hopkinson
La Vagabonde – Colette
Becoming Nicole – Amy Ellis Nutt
November:
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
The Children's Book – A.S. Byatt
The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
Under the Udala Trees – Chinelo Okparanta
Who Killed These Girls? – Beverly Lowry
Running for my Life – Lopez Lmong
Radium Girls – Kate Moore
News of the World – Paulette Jiles
The Red Pony – John Steinbeck
The Edible History of Humanity – Tom Standage
A Woman in Arabia – Gertrude Bell and Georgina Howell
Founding Gardeners – Andrea Wulf
Anatomy of a Disapperance – Hisham Matar
The Book of Night Women – Marlon James
Ground Zero – Kevin J. Anderson *
Acorna – Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball *
A Girl Named Zippy – Haven Kimmel *
The Age of the Vikings – Anders Winroth
The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction – Helen Graham
A General History of the Pyrates – Captain Charles Johnson (suspected Nathaniel Mist)
Clouds of Witness – Dorothy L. Sayers *
The Lonely City – Olivia Laing
No Time for Tears – Judy Heath
December:
The Unwomanly Face of War – Svetlana Alexievich
Gay-Neck - Dhan Gopal Mukerji
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane – Lisa See
Get Well Soon – Jennifer Wright
The Testament of Mary – Colm Toibin
The Roman Way – Edith Hamilton
Understood Betsy – Dorothy Canfield Fisher *
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Vicente Blasco Ibanez
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH – Robert C. O'Brien
SPQR – Mary Beard
Ballet Shoes – Noel Streatfeild *
Hogfather – Terry Pratchett *
The Sorrow of War – Bao Ninh
Drowned Hopes – Donald E. Westlake *
Selected Essays – Michel de Montaigne
Vietnam – Stanley Karnow
The Snake, The Crocodile, and the Dog – Elizabeth Peters
Guests of the Sheik – Elizabetha Warnok Fernea
Stone Butch Blues – Leslie Feinberg
Wicked Plants – Amy Stewart
Life in a Medieval City – Joseph and Frances Gies
Under the Sea Wind – Rachel Carson
The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia – Mary and Brian Talbot
Brat Farrar – Josephine Tey *
The Treasure of the Ten Avatars – Don Rosa
Escape From Forbidden Valley – Don Rosa
Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
Here Comes the Sun – Nicole Dennis-Benn
Over My Dead Body – Rex Stout *
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current mood: that scene where james walter wayland (tim roth’s character in deceiver) just starts laughing
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james: why are you guys so convinced im not telling the truth?!
*the past five minutes*
james: sits like a hunched up gargoyle perched on his chair, openly admits to not telling the truth in his initial statement, insults the cops interrogating him, admits to having assaulted a girl when drunk in the past (althoughit's not explicitly said if this is ANOTHER lie or not), fails to mention he had epilepsy and takes pills for it which could mess up his polygraph, is all in all just a weird fucking dude
james: I JUST DONT UNDERSTAND WHY YOU THINK IM LYING.
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Alien: Covenant Review
I'm going to save everyone some time here. Alien: Covenant is a bad movie. There, you can save the 5 minutes it would take to read the rest of this review and the two hours the Covenant runs all in one fell swoop. It is a movie mired with bad writing, lame looking xenomorphs, as less scares then notable James Cameron action movie Aliens. I'll get into details below.
Alien Covenant drops us in with the creation of Adam (Michael Fassbender), the android from Prometheus. It offers a brief set up into the mind of a early production model Wayland bot who is capable of independent thought and creativity. This serves to give insight into his actions from Prometheus and foreshadow the themes of creation gone awry that act as the overtone of Covenant and Prometheus. The story then jumps forward 10 years after the events of Prometheus to the colonization ship Covenant which also has a Fassbender-bot of its own named Walter. The Covenant is beset with a cosmic event that causes the death of Captain James Franco, who really only seems to be in the movie because his friend Danny McBride has a starring role and has maybe 45 seconds of collective screen time. This of course creates a power vacuum that has to be filled by the second in command who is, of course, not prepared for the role and makes bad decisions because of it.
During repairs of the ship, the crew discovers a faint message from another human in a nearby star system and they decide the best course of action is to risk the lives of not only the crew, but all 2,000 some colonists and 2,000 more human embryos, to check it out as a possible colony instead of the planet they have spent the last two years trying to get to. The only justification they give for abandoning their mission and taking this huge risk is one lady saying she doesn't want to go back into cryosleep and the rest of the crew agreeing. Only Lt. Daniels (Katherine Waterston) recognizes this as the stupidest plan ever conceived and objects. She is of course right, because the dissenting, play it safe, opinion is always right in horror movies, just as it is always ignored, because what fun would the movie be if nothing goes wrong? Unfortunately for Alien Covenant, the movie is neither fun, nor scary regardless of what path they would choose.
Things go bad, people die, aliens are about. You know the drill. This is about as by the numbers as you'll get. There is also a twist that is set up about 3/4 of the way through the movie that you will spot immediately that they 'reveal' in the last couple seconds of the movie. The whole thing feels pretty insulting. Probably the worst thing is how they handle woman characters. Alien is a franchise built around one of the strongest female characters in recent history. Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley was a bad ass who didn't let anything stop her. Charlize Theron and Noomi Rapace both were very strong characters in Prometheus. Conversely, every woman character in Alien Covenant is hysterical at the drop of a hat. Even the lead character Daniels spends most of the movie in shambles over her husbands death. Rapace's character from Prometheus also gets the honor of one of the most unceremonious sendoffs to a character I have ever seen. It comes off as the writers of Alien Covenant knowing they have to make their movie a direst sequel to Prometheus, but not wanting to have to figure out a way to deal with the fact that Rapace made it out of the last film.
Overall, the acting in this movie is all over the place. Fassbender, who has had some of my favorite performances in the last several years, is incredibly inconsistent moment to moment. Some of his dialog being laughably cringe-worthy. Danny McBride gave the best performance of the show as Tennessee, the hard nosed pilot of the Covenant. Waterston does what she can, but is hamstrung by the poor script she was handed. This movie adds nothing of merit to the Alien franchise and actually only serves to make the timeline for the original Alien more confusing with a mid movie reveal about the origins of the facehuggers. The whole script comes across like a fan fiction written by people who don't understand subtly, but still really want to keep rape as the scary undertone. It is filled with nonsense, plot holes, and missed opportunities for much more interesting plot directions. Worst of all, it is just boring and goes nowhere. The whole thing resolves at what feels like the end of the second act of a better movie. Additionally, on a technical note, Alien Covenant is loud. It is probably the loudest movie I have watched since Interstellar. This doesn't really affect anything, but I figured I'd point it out since it caught me off guard.
You're time is more valuable than this movie. If you are not a fan, this won't win you over. If you are a fan, it will only bring disappointment and muddle the timeline of the rest of the films. If you are deadset on watching a bad Alien movie, you have no less than 4 more entertaining options available to you.
2/5
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* Adams, Gretchen A. “The Specter of Salem in American Culture.” OAH Magazine of History 17, no. 4 (July 2003): 24-27.
Auston, Donna. “Prayer, Protest, and Police Brutality: Black Muslim Spiritual Resistance in the Ferguson Era.” Transforming Anthropology 25, no. 1 (April 2017): 11-22.
Bjork-James, Sophie. “Training the Porous Body: Evangelicals and the Ex-Gay Movement.” American Anthropologist 120, no 4 (December 2018): 647-658.
Chatman, Michele Coghill. “Talking About Tally’s Corner: Church Elders Reflect on Race, Place, and Removal in Washington, DC.” Transforming Anthropology 25, no. 1 (April 2017): 35-49.
* Draper, Scott and Joseph O. Baker. “Angelic Belief as American Folk Religion.” Sociological Forum 26, no. 3 (September 2011): 624-643.
* Eliason, Eric A. “Seer Stones, Salamanders, and Early Mormon ‘Folk Magic’ in the Light of Folklore Studies and Bible Scholarship.” BYU Studies Quarterly 55, no. 1 (2016): 73-93.
* Elder, D. R. “’Es Sind Zween Weg’: Singing Amish Children into the Faith Community.” Cultural Analysis 2 (2001).
Elisha, Omri. “Dancing the Word: Techniques of embodied authority among Christian praise dancers in New York City.” American Ethnologist 45, no.3 (August 2018): 380-391.
Friedner, Michele Ilana. “Vessel of God/Access to God: American Sign Language Interpreting in American Evangelical Churches.” American Anthropologist 120, no. 4 (December 2018): 659-670.
* Galman, Sally Campbell. “Un/Covering: Female Religious Converts Learning the Problems and Pragmatics of Physical Observance in the Secular World.” Anthropology & Education Quarterly 44, no. 4 (December 2013): 423-441.
Golden, Janet and Emily K. Abel. “Modern Medical Science and the Divine Providence of God: Rethinking the Place of Religion in Postwar U.S. Medical History.” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 69, no. 4 (October 2014): 580-603.
* Hand, Wayland D. “Folk Medical Inhalants in Respiratory Disorders.” Medical History 12 (1968): 153-163.
* Henderson, Frances B. and Bertin M. Louis, Jr. “Black Rural Lives Matters: Ethnographic Research about an Anti-Racist Interfaith Organization in the United States.” Transforming Anthropology 25, no. 1 (April 2017): 50-67.
* Kloberdanz, Timothy J. “The Daughters of Shiphrah: Folk Healers and Midwives of The Great Plains.” Great Plains Quarterly 9 (Winter 1989): 3-12.
* Kravel-Tovi, Michal. “Accounting of the Soul: Enumeration, Affect, and Soul Searching among American Jewry.” American Anthropologist 120, no. 4 (December 2018): 711-724.
* Madrid, E. Michael. “Dancing with the Devil and Other Stories My Mother Told Me.” Association of Mexican American Educators Journal 3, no. 1 (2009): 15-29.
Manning, Paul. “Spiritualist Signal and Theosophical Noise.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 28, no. 1 (May 2018): 67-92.
* McKay, Francis. “Telic Attunements: Moods and Ultimate Values (Among Meditation Practitioners in the United States.” Ethos: Journal for the Society for Psychological Anthropology 46, no. 4 (December 2018): 498-518.
* Russell, Caskey. “Cultures in Collision: Cosmology, Jurisprudence, and Religion in Tlingit Territory.” The American Indian Quarterly 33, no. 2 (Spring 2009): 230-252.
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* Versluis, Arthur. “Western Esotericism and the Harmony Society.” Esoterica 1 (1999): 20-47.
* Woodward, Walter W. “New England’s Other Witch-Hunt: The Hartford Witch-Hunt of the 1660s and Changing Patterns in Witchcraft Prosecution.” OAH Magazine of History 17, no. 4 (July 2003): 16-20.
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okayyy @sunlewis tagged me and she is the loveliest person on this planet and we are DOING THIS buckle down to learn some things about me:
rules: answer the questions then tag 9 people you want to know better
relationship status: single, someone needs to buy me flowers asap
favourite colour: purple!!!!
lipstick or chapstick: chapstick, just because my lips dry out constantly.
last song you listened to: incomplete, by james bay. i JUST got super into his album so i’ve been listening to just james bay songs on repeat for the past day
last movie you watched: l m a o i rewatched the fellowship of the ring (part 1 of the lord of the rings) a few days ago while i was drunk with my friends
top 3 characters: oh god okay i love all of them but here it is. walter o’brien (scorpion), simon lewis (shadowhunters), jake peralta (b99)
top 3 ships: hnghhhhhh what the fuck. jace wayland/simon lewis and raphael santiago/simon lewis tie for 1 (both shadowhunters), amy santiago/jake peralta (b99), walter o’brien/paige dineen (scorpion)
books you’re currently reading: um my textbooks. last proper book series was the obsidian mirror series by catherine fisher. it was...okay. a bit much for my tastes, but well-written and entertaining enough.
top 5 musicals: the waitress, dear evan hansen, wicked, and of course HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL
tagging other people...i still don’t know how i manage to have any human interaction but here goes: @raphsantiagay @mxgnxsbane @jacesdaylighter @boasorteminhamenina @caqtis @annadalee @earlsleg @softmagnuslightwood @bane-sexual @simonlewhiss
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